Hay-rack-removing appliance.



E. MARTIN.

HAY RACK REMOVING APPLIANCE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1912.

1,071,935, Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

E. JVIQPTin witnesses EARL MARTIN, OF CHARLES CITY, IOWA.

HAY-RACKRE1V[OVING APPLIANCE.

novices.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed July 18, 1912. Serial No. 710,183.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EARL MAu'riN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charles City, in the county of Floyd and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Rack-ltemoving Appliances; and I. do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an appliance for removing wagon beds and particularly hay beds from the running gears of a wagon, and my invention consists of certain novel features of combination and construction of parts, as will be hereinafter clearly set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings; in which- Figure 1 shows a side elevation of my hay bed removing appliance, showing only one of the winding drums. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 1, on dotted line 2 2, the winding drums being omitted and, Fig. 3 is a detail view of the preferred form of joint employed for connecting the supporting legs to the support or platform proper.

In order to conveniently refer to the various details of my invention and cooperating accessories, numerals will be employed, the same numeral applying to a corresponding part of the several views.

Referring to the numerals on the d "awings, 1 designates the supporting post of any preferred construction, there being one of said posts on each side of the roadway or driveway a proper distance apart to insure that the hubs of the vehicle will not contact therewith and yet sufficiently near the driveway to insure that the pivoted supporting beams or platform 2 mounted on the upper end of said posts will engage the projecting part of the hay bed or the ends of suitable pieces of material located beneath the box bed. It will be understood that there are two of said supporting posts and also two of the supporting posts 2, each designed to engage its respective side of the bed or extensions carrying the same.

To each end of the supporting posts 2. I pivotally connect the supporting legs 3, of proper length, to support the hay bed or box, as the case may be, above the bolsters of the wagon whereby the running gears of the wagon may be withd awn there from after the bed has been emptied.

Tn Fig. 3, I have shown a special form of connecting joint. for the supporting legs 3 which will permit the said legs to extend downward at right angles to the plane of the beams 2 but. will prevent said leg from rising above said plane, as will be obvious by reference to the special form of bar -.t connected to the lower side of the beam 2 as by the screws or nails 5 and having upon its upper end the extension (3, designed to lie parallel with the upper surface of the leg 3 when the latter is extended in the same plane occupied by the beams 2.

A drum 8 pivotally mounted on the outside of each post 1, only one of which is shown, each drum carrying a cable 8 secured at its outer ends to a beam 52, the drums being provided with suitable handles 9, a ratchet wheel 10, and pawl or detcnt 1.1.

The vehicle with the wagon bed thereon is driven between the posts 1, in such a position as to insure that the projecting ends 12 of the hay bed will. be engaged by the beams 2, it being understood that the leg 3 nearest the approaching vehicle is extended outward in the same plane occupied by the beams 2 when the act of drawing the vehicle between the posts will cause the extension 12 to ride upon the elevated end of the beams and after the weight of the forward end of the hay bed has thus been disposed upon the contiguous ends of the beams 2, the beams will tilt on their pivots and the other ends thereof will rise upward and engage the rear extension 12 on the hay bed and lift the rear end of the bed upward from the vagon bolster when the vehicle may be withdrznvn from under the bed, leaving the latter supported upon the beams 2. This tilting of the beams will be governed in speed by the paying out of the cables from the falling forward ends and the drawing upon the other ends of the cables by the rising rear ends of the beams, the cables being wound once or more around the beams, and the pawls and ratchets will prevent turning of the drums and thus hold the cables against paying out or winding up and cause them by their frictional hold on the drums, to prevent the accidental tilting backward of the beams, and the sliding back thereon of the wagon box or bed.

If the forward ends of the beam for any reason, fail to fall when the box or body rides up on them, this operation can be assured by turning the beams, the pawls holding them in any positions to which they may be turned.

To permit the beams to tip so that the forward ends will rise and the rear ends fall, the pawls are released and, the movement regulated by holding the handles or cranks of the beams, by which this movement may be made as fast or slow as desired and the tipping operation made gradual, avoiding a sudden dropping and consequent damage to the bed or box, or the contents thereof, or injury to the operating parts.

When an ordinary box bed is to be removed, suitable cross bars corresponding to the extensions 12 may be provided, adapted to extend under the front and rear ends of the box bed when the projecting ends thereof will be engaged by the beams, as above stated.

The height of the posts 1 and the length of the supporting legs 3 will be determined by the height of the wagon bolsters carrying the hay bed. If desired, the beams 2 may be locked in an inclined position to receive the forward end of the wagon bed, as shown in Fig. l, or if desired, the controlling drum 7 maybe omitted and reliance had wholly upon the supporting beams pivoted to their respective carrying posts and having the supporting legs at each end thereof,- as shown.

It Will thus be seen that I have provided reliably eihcient means for lifting a hay bed or the like from the running gears of a wagon, thus avoiding the heavy lifting and incident labor of removing the bed, the parts preferred construction of of my invention being very cheaply manufactured, and while I have described the parts, I wish to comprehend such substantial equivalents thereof as may fall fairly within the scope of my invention.

What I claim is 1. An apparatus of the character described comprising a pair of posts mounted upon opposite sides of the driveway, a supporting beam pivoted intermediate its ends upon each post and extending parallel with the driveway, a drum mounted on each post and a cable secured to each beam forward of its pivot, wound about its drum and again secured to the beam to the rear of its pivot. v a

2. An apparatus of the character described comprising a pair of posts mounted upon opposite sides of the driveway, a supporting beam pivoted intermediate its ends upon each post and extending parallel with the driveway, a drum mounted on'its post and a cable secured to each beam forward of its pivot, wound about a drum and again secured to the beam to the rear of its pivot, a ratchet on a drum, and a pawl pivoted on the post and engaging the ratchet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EARL MARTIN. lVitnesses i I. N. SNYDER, ERVIN DE FIENNE.v

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